On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Andrea Pescetti<pesce...@openoffice.org> wrote: > Stephan Bergmann wrote: >> On 07/30/09 11:19, ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote: >> > I brought up the idea of adding a Captcha for new user registrations, >> > but there was no real definitive answer or agreement on that one. >> >> I find interesting what John Viega writes about "CrAP-TCHAs" in his >> recent book "The Myths of Security" >> (<http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596523022>), where he weighs usability >> implications against alleged spam prevention ("However, you can pay >> someone a mere $2 to break 1,000 CAPTCHAs. > > I believe a CAPTCHA would be useful nevertheless; it seems that > ReCAPTCHA, that relies on word combinations, could be a bit harder to > exploit in the way the book suggests. > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ReCAPTCHA > > Regards, > Andrea Pescetti - Italian N-L Project Lead. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@website.openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@website.openoffice.org > >
Also there could be an activation code through email to monitor unactive accounts. -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español IM: j...@jabber.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@website.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@website.openoffice.org
